Senate Roll Call 148, 101st Congress · July 27, 1989

To reduce funds for the SDI program and increase funds for certain other programs. — TO TABLE THE JOHNSTON (D, LA) AMENDMENT TO S 1352, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, TO LIMIT FUNDS FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) PROGRAM.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

50 yea · 47 nayMotion to Table Agreed to3 not voting or present

Democrat12 yea · 41 nay

Republican38 yea · 5 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1352 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment to limit SDI funding prevents cuts to defense programs.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (50)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (3)

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